Search Tag: Alain Cribier
2016 13 Nov
Pioneering Interventional Cardiologist Don’t undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible. Edwin Land Career highlight: The first non-surgical implantation of a prosthetic aortic heart valve, performed on April 16, 2002 with my team in Rouen after 10 years of research. It turned...Read more
2016 15 Sep
Prof. Alain Cribier, MD, MD, FACC, FESC has been Chief of Cardiology at the University Hospital Charles Nicolle of Rouen, France for 20 years. He became widely recognised for having developed new interventional technologies for the treatment of valvular heart diseases : balloon aortic valvuloplasty in 1985, mitral commissurotomy in 1994, and,...Read more